Review on 💽 Seagate ST500LT012 500GB 2.5" Internal Hard Drive - Momentus Thin by Elang ᠌

ST500LT012-9WS142 Firmware: 0001SDM1 Although the Momentus Thin series is Seagate's cheapest drives, my copy turned out to be quite high quality and durable. The drive has been used as an external drive for a very long time - SMART shows 33.5 months, but it feels like it worked for about 5 years and still works! Used every day, stored files - lots of doc, pdf, jpeg. The parking counter counted 378,982, so the DriveDx diagnostic program in line 193 Load Cycle Count marked 1% with the comment that most drives go from 300 to 600 thousand parking lots. Although, in my experience, old Hitachi drives (manufactured in 2022-2022) went for more than 1 million parking lots and at the same time worked properly.